Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Richard <rick47@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed November 9 2005 5:56 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 2:43 am, rick47@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Since someone has been able to connect, sync I presume, with jpilot in
> > suse 10, can you give me some guidance?  I am used to setting a softlink
> > from /dev/pilot or some such to /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1, but I do
> > not see either in my new 10 install.  Am I missing it somewhere, or do I
> > need to create one of these for the sync?  I do recall reading, but not
> > seeing the application of, the release notes about hotplugging.  I could
> > copy the old device names from my old 9.3, not fully discarded yet.
> > Would this be the way to go?
>
> I have /dev/ttyUSB1 set up in my jpilot preferences, and it works fine.
> But, /dev/ttyUSB1 does not exists until you press the hot sync button:
> usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> gaf@sauron:~> ls -l /dev/ttyU*
> crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 0 2005-11-09 08:53 /dev/ttyUSB0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 1 2005-11-09 08:53 /dev/ttyUSB1
> visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from
> ttyUSB0
> visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from
> ttyUSB1
> visor 3-2:1.0: device disconnected
> gaf@sauron:~> ls -l /dev/ttyU*
> /bin/ls: /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory
>
>
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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So cool.  Thank you.  But all the trouble I used to go to (learning soft 
links, creating device nodes...), all wasted now.  Now it is just easy.  
Sniff.  Where are the good old days?!?   I guess I was just looking for a way 
to make it more difficult.

Richard